Hann - because K-Pop had never before seen an idol make an appearance looking like Soyeon did in that video. I'm still surprised their company didn't stuff them into schoolgirl uniforms like all the others do.
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Dressing and acting like teenage boys is not "empowering" for anybody. :)
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They earned $90 million for YG. The members probably each got a piece of cake and a pat on the head.
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Where were all of these geniuses back in 2017, when I thought it was a Song of the Year candidate then?
Oh well, at least they finally woke up before Brave Girls disbanded.
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Lilac, but IU has proven this year she is still the queen.
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Hard to justify calling them "disappointing" when they are the wholly owned property of the CCP - and must express the exact opinions provided for them, or else.
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LOONA's Butterfly. The others are not even close.
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Hairstylist deserves immediate termination. A good look for Nayeon...when she was twelve years old.
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Infection rates are lower in asia pacific because of diet. Almost 80% of global infected were either overweight or obese.
To be precise, it's the severity of illness that is strongly affected by excess weight. Asians get the virus...and tend to quickly get over it, like any other respiratory virus. Healthy people in other countries get the virus...and quickly get over it, like I did back in January.
Overweight, pre-diabetic, Vitamin D-deficient people get the virus and end up in the hospital, just like they do every single year during flu season.
The reckoning that is coming for authoritarian government officials when Millennials around the world finally figure out how badly they have been played will be epic.
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I think there can be a benefit to that - especially for a group from a big company. aespa already has immense interest from the public - they aren't some nugu group from a tiny company who needs every scrap of exposure they can get.
By holding back on doing variety shows and a lot of silly web content it gives the group an air of mystery, and the public takes their actual music releases more seriously.
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But there is this charm about kpop pre-2014ish or so that it has largely lost and I can't put my finger on it.
I want to say is was the increasing global and international presence that became too much to bear and has ultimately thrown kpop into a more 1 for 1 match up with the ubiquity of international trend.
I know kpop has always been influenced by international elements. But it seemed out of step enough pre middle 10s decade that it still had this distinct charm.
That I would argue has been lost.
And I can't quite say what exactly it is about the music. But I feel it whenever I review large swaths of discographies from earlier years to now.
Either that or I just don't like the modern way they make songs and the sounds and vibe they go for.
I don't know what it is exactly.
You already identified it - too much imitation of vulgar Western female pop "artists" and far too much hip hop influence. Songs from 2014 and earlier had more of a Korean feel to them, like something developed internally rather than borrowed from Warner Music.
But all is not lost - when a newer group puts out material with more of a 2nd Generation sound, we tend to like it right away:
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K-Pop peaked in 2015.
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